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Caribbean urges continued funding for HIV/AIDS programmes
BARCELONA, Spain, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries Monday appealed for continued international financial assistance to deal with the HIV-AIDS epidemic. In an addressing commemorating the 10th anniversary of the XIV AIDS Conference here, St. Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas, who has responsibility for health issues within the 15-member CARICOM grouping, said a decade after signing an accord with…
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Bahamas Most Popular Island Destination while Turks & Caicos is Island Most would Like to Visit
The Bahamas continues to attract the most American luxury travelers, according to a new study released by Resonance Consultancy in collaboration with the Luxury Institute. The report also shows that the island destination more affluent Americans want to visit than any other is the Turks and Caicos. The Resonance Report on Affluent Travel and Leisure surveyed more than 1,200 affluent…
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Tourism boom – 1.6 million air seats sold for summer
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica has secured 1.6 million air seats into the island this summer, with the bulk coming from the United States — the island's major market — even as the country continues to woo visitors from the non-traditional areas of Eastern Europe and Latin America. This is welcome news for the many tourism interests now gathered in Montego…
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New report says remittances flows to the Caribbean remain stable
WASHINGTON, CMC – A new report released here says remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) showed a slight increase in 2012 compared to the previous year. The report, titled “Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2012: Differing Behavior among Sub-regions,” was released by the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).…
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PM says no referendum on Belize-Guatemala border dispute
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Prime Minister Dean Barrow says there will be no referendum in Belize and Guatemala on October 6 as the two countries seek to end a long standing border dispute between them. Barrow told reporters that confirmation that the referendum would not be held on October 6 as planned came during a meeting in Haiti between Foreign…
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Regional transport ministers to meet in St. Vincent
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Caribbean aviation and transport ministers meet here on Tuesday to discuss a wide range of outstanding matters including the possibility of establishing a single regional airline, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonslaves has said. Gonsalves, speaking at a news conference, said that while his administration has no objection to the formation of a single airline to…
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Canada’s trade relationship with the Caribbean should be allowed to flourish
It is to be hoped that the visit last week to Canada of Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, who in July will become the chair of Caricom, an association of 15 Caribbean nation-states, will help move forward Canada’s free-trade negotiations with Caricom. Canada’s merchandise trade with the Caricom countries is not huge, but the connections in…
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Call for better tsunami warning systems
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – In the Caribbean and western mid-Atlantic, tens of thousands of lives are at risk and millions of dollars are at stake if a tsunami strikes and therefore all communities must implement more efficient warning systems. So says Christa von Hillebrandt Andrade, manager of the US national weather service Caribbean tsunami warning programme, who spoke yesterday…
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